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There are three different major types of active identity categories
at the university - students, employees and other active
(övrigt verksamma).
- A student is always a private individual and cannot act
as part of the university authority (myndighet).
- An employee is always a part of the university authority.
- An other active is a person where the head of department
(or similar) take responsibility for that the other active
acts in the same way as an employee.
Persons who are students but are also working on behalf of the
department should not use their Student ID but an Employee ID
instead. This way the private use is separated from the use as an
university employee or other active.
Persons using an Employee ID can via the catalogue get group
embership controlling access to shared electronic
resources belonging to the research group (file server shares,
high-performance computing clusters) and other electronic resources at
the university.
So why should a person use the role as an other active
rather than a student?
- The research group leader can give the person group
membership access to the shared electronic resources for the
research group.
- The research group leader control start and stop date for the
person getting acccess to the shared electronic resources.
- The responsibilites are clearly divided between technical
access to the resource for the whole group (initially configured by a
system administrator) and including the person in the shared resources
for that research group (given by the research group leader).
- There is no additional administration by system
administrators to manually provide access. This is done automatically
via AKKA through the directory services (Active Directory (USER-AD)
and LDAP) using groups from the catalogue.
- No person that has been given access is forgotten since
the access is automatically removed.
- Depending on the computer systems that are used, a person using
an employee ID and with group membership (access to shared
electonic resources) will automatically get backup of important
files (usually on Windows computers this includes
Desktop and Documents).
- If a student (working on behalf of the university using their
Employee ID as an other active) later will get employed all data
is already at the right place and with correct
ownership. Otherwise the data would have to be moved from their
old place to the new and change ownership from the old Student ID to
the new Employee ID.
Please read more:
Active category |
In AKKA controlled by department |
Type of ID |
Physical access to department |
Group membership in AKKA |
Visible in catalogue |
Student |
No |
Student ID |
No |
No |
No |
Employee |
Yes |
Employee ID |
Usually Yes |
Usually Yes |
Usually Yes |
Other Active |
Yes |
Employee ID |
Yes or No |
Yes or No |
Usually No |
This entry student.vs.employee was last modified 2017-10-23
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